Blogs from Brazil, South America - page 650

I am writing this account nearly 10 years on from when I visited Brazil, seems a long time ago but it is still strong in my memory so I will blog it before I forget. At his time I was serving as a deck officer on the MS Isomeria for Shell Oil international, it was my first trip on a ship and it is what I consider by turning from a boy into a man. We sailed from Gibraltar to Brazil and subsequently crossed the equator for the first time and in the time honored tradition on sailors worldwide I had to endure the ceremony of crossing the line , which is an initiation rite for all UK sailors, which commemorates a sailor's first crossing of the equator. Originally the tradition was created as a test ... read more

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This is a continuation of my putting our old travel journals onto this blog site. See previous ones: (1) Guatemala 1988, which is the first in this series; (2) Costa Rica 1989 (w/Christmas in Cozumel, Mexico and last days in Guatemala); (3) Cuba & Mexico 1989; (4) Argentina (w/Uruguay, a bit of Brazil & Paraguay) 1989; (5) Chile & Bolivia (including Mendoza, Argentina & Tacna, Peru); (6) Peru, Ecuador & Galapagos Islands 1989; (7) Ecuador Part II & Bogotá, Colombia; (8) Brazil Part I (w/Manaus, Belém, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife & Maceió, (9) and this will be the ninth. Again, I am relying on the internet, photos I happened to have scanned and ones people have sent to me as I do not have access to my original photos. Thank you all who sent me photos - ... read more

Geo: -22.969, -43.1856Leaving the previously found shelter with my mother in Asuncion. On my unplanned way back to Germany...Luckily I was able to stopover in Rio de Janeiro and my onward flight to Frankfurt with Lufthansa was delayed by 48 hours. Lufthansa paid for each of the 180 passengers nothing less than the Copacabana Palace hotel...Still remembering...Just left Asuncion on a controversy issue with my mother...My mother intended me to stay and go to school there...The one and only time in life I remember my father actually made a decision to help me rather than himself...Bad enough...it was the only good decision he ever made...Nothing good followed...Ok, don't get me wrong...I loved Paraguay but way back than it was a hiding place of German criminals running away from the judging system of Germany...I am talking about ... read more